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WhiskeyGirl
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Slutkin, the managing director of Cure the Violence, is a doctor who specialises in infectious disease control and reversing epidemics who used to work for the World Health Organization.
He thinks violence behaves like tuberculosis or Aids – and sees it as an infectious disease that can be stamped out by challenging and changing behavioural norms...
"It's an epidemic curve."
If gun violence is an infectious disease, then Chicago has the bug pretty bad. There were 506 gun murders last year, 16% more than in 2011. This year, so far, has been even worse; three people were shot dead on 1 January alone, and with 43 fatal shootings this January was the deadliest in decades. A few weeks ago, Shirley Chambers lost her fourth of four children to gun violence.
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In some communities, generations have never lot a child or adult to a gun shot.
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...Slutkin estimates that between 20% and 30% of Chicago children have witnessed a shooting.
The problem is not citywide but concentrated in mostly low-income and minority neighbourhoods. Contrary to popular perception, it's not the worst city in the country for gun violence – it's not even in the top 10. Nor it the worst it's ever been – over the last 20 years shootings have fallen by half. But two things make Chicago's gun problem stand out. The first is that it's by far the biggest city to see such a significant upswing at a time when many other large urban areas are actually seeing gun murders go down.
I imagine there are millions of children that have only seen a shooting on TV, never in real life. I can't think of anyone, outside military members, that have seen a shooting or participated in one.
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...."We need to interrupt the spread, change the script, change the behaviour and change the norms," he says.
Cure The Violence does a great deal of public education, often in concert with local clergy, to organise communities against gun violence. But it also has a team of "violence interrupters" who may be ex-offenders and former gang members embedded in the community who try to broker truces or will go to the emergency room of a victim and persuade family members not to retaliate...Unemployment in and around the area stands at 35%. Many of the homes nearby have been foreclosed and boarded up. The mortality rate for black infants in Chicago is on a par with the West Bank. One-in-five black male Chicagoans is out of work and one-in-three live in poverty.../quote]
This seems to be where the nation is headed, one in five out of work and one in three living in poverty...
read more here and use interactive map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/12/barack-obama-gun-violence-chicago
Why would anyone want to spread a cultural problem that doesn't exist everywhere?
Why not address the problem people?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/feb/12/chicago-gun-homicides-map-firearm-dealers
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These licensed dealers, even though "just outside" city limits are still an inconvenience, and most gun toting residents dont use licensed firearms. The problem is absolutely NOT how easy it is to LEGALLY purchase a gun, but how easy it is to acquire one ILLEGALLY... And beyond that, the laws are shaky. Depending on who you are, what your prior convictions are, how old you are, which neighborhood your in, your sentence may be next to nothing for getting caught with an unregistered weapon. I've seen it, and dealt with it and it's horribly frustrating. Kids in gang territories that are essentially just given weapons, end up in jail for 6-10 years depending on their race, hood, affiliations etc... But you can be a middle aged, white, out of work burnout that gets caught firing a weapon, drunk and disorderly, indoors, with prior convictions and a warrant out for your arrest, and be back home in 30 days... The guns and the gun shops are not the problem. There are ignorant agendas running each neighborhood very differently...
Good question, where do the illegally purchased guns come from?
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It's been my understanding that most guns used in Chicago shootings were purchased in Indiana or Wisconsin which have more lax gun laws than Illinois.
Side Note: Don't know how I feel about the fact that it was easier to find the name of the man that was shot outside my bedroom window the summer before last on the website of an international newspaper than it was the Tribune the day after it happened.
I wonder how much information is suppressed in Chicago? What kind of reporting really goes on in the news? Foreign news has better coverage of local crimes?
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